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Archive File: LAVC/SED/2/8/2/7

West Midlands Responses - Book IV, Part 9

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 9: Reptiles. Includes questions IV.9.1 Worms - IV.9.11 Herrings.

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Archive Print Item: Sport/WAL

The complete angler, or contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: in two parts

Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789)

1792

Plates engraved in line by W. W. Ryland, after S. Wale. "This is the 1791 edition, with a new title-page, the title of the second part [The complete angler... Being instructions how to angle for a t...

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1741

Includes indexes.

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Archive File: LAVC/SRP/2/011

The Domestic Sewing Needle: An Enquiry into the Vocabulary and Folklore Associated with its Manufacturing Processes

Hawley, Elizabeth K

1962

A dissertation in four parts, based on fieldwork carried out in Redditch and Studley. The first part provides a general history of needle-making and a history of the trade in the Redditch area. Part T...

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Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1906 Contains digital media

Barrelling (Fishhooks)

Hawley, Elizabeth K

[1961-1962]

Fishhooks being barrelled as part of the scouring process, at the Forge Mill in Redditch (Worcestershire). The Mill is now in use as the Forge Mill Needle Museum.

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Archive Print Item: BC Gen q/WAL

The compleat angler

Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Le Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947)

1897

"This, the present edition, was issued during 1896-1897 in thirteen monthly parts" : p.383. "The anglers' calendar compiled by Hi Regan": [14] p. at end.

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Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P0407

Salmon Nets: Drying

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

Summer 1958

Salmon net spread out to dry on the pier by a lifeboat house [?at Tweedmouth, Northumberland]. Two fishermen stand next to the net. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note, and ms. diagram showing...

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Archive Print Item: Early Science 6 1761 DES/P3

Traité général des pesches : et histoire des poissons qu'elles fournissent, tant pour la subsistance des hommes, que pour plusieurs autres usages qui ont rapport aux arts et au commerce (sections 1-2)

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1781?); La Marre, L H de (1730-); Académie des Sciences

1769-1782

Part of a series published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, entitled Description des arts et métiers. Published in 2 parties, 4 tomes, 13 sections. The name of De La Marre appears on title-p...

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Archive Print Item: Early Science 6 1761 DES/P4

Traité général des pesches : et histoire des poissons qu'elles fournissent, tant pour la subsistance des hommes, que pour plusieurs autres usages qui ont rapport aux arts et au commerce (sections 2-3)

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1781?); La Marre, L H de (1730-); Académie des Sciences

1769-1782

Part of a series published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, entitled Description des arts et métiers. Published in 2 parties, 4 tomes, 13 sections. The name of De La Marre appears on title-p...

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